Dueber Watch-Case Manuf'g Co. v. Robbins
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Ohio. This was a suit in equity by Royal E. Robbins and Thomas M. Avery against the Dueber Watch-Case Manufacturing Company, John C. Dueber, its president, and William C. Moore, its secretary and treasurer, for alleged infringement of a patent relating to stem-winding watches.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Ohio. This was a suit in equity by Royal E. Robbins and Thomas M. Avery against the Dueber Watch-Case Manufacturing Company, John C. Dueber, its president, and William C. Moore, its secretary and treasurer, for alleged infringement of a patent relating to stem-winding watches. The circuit court entered an interlocutory decree sustaining the patent, finding infringement, and referring the case to a master for an accounting. 71 Fed. 189. Defendants have appealed. This is an appeal from a…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). The decree of the circuit court must be reversed for two reasons: First, because the Colby patent, in view of the state of the art, did not involve patentable invention; Second, even if the Colby patent can be sustained, its scope is so narrow, in view of prior inventions, that the defendants’ device is not an infringement.
The object of Colby’s device was to permit the movement of a stem-winding watch to be lifted out of the case, and freed from the stem arbor or key, by withdrawing the key from its connection with the movement back into the stem, and so securing it…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Columbus Watch Co. v. RobbinsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1894
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